Bill Crouch

Ralph and Mack are dealing with something sinister. No amount of eye shadow can erase the fact that they are no longer viewed as rebels by a society they seek to confront and enlighten. A disturbance in the Force? Or worse, societal approval and marital bliss.

Gilbert Bennett revealed his HIV status to the world on social media, on World AIDS Day. According to his best friend Lexi Williams, Gilbert then promptly ascended to the heavens, and no one’s seen him since. Sparks fly, when Gilbert’s sister Cynthia finally shows up a year later, to say her goodbyes to a brother she assumes is missing or dead. Is Gilbert gone for good? Is this a hoax, or has Lexi seen something truly miraculous occur in a church parking lot? And what does James Baldwin have to do with any of it?

Gerry and Kirk are stumped. Their online tryst, Donnie Oz, has vanished from their apartment in Hell's Kitchen. After a frantic call to the local authorities, the befuddled duo learns that this is the second in a series of personal theft-and-vanish occurrences in the last six months. Mysteries deepen, as an old flame of Donnie's unburdens himself only too willingly on the unsuspecting couple. Will Donnie's motives be revealed? Or, have Gerry and Kirk discovered ghostly dimensions merging mementos of the past with murky shadows of the present.

Jeannie Boyd has a bone to pick with her high school sweetheart, Christopher Damien. The closeted, faded soap star who brought her to prom, may have committed a double case of embezzlement, ruining her reputation along the way. Seeing red, Jeannie unleashes her deepest rage at the pathological liar she believed was her closest friend. Is Christopher Damien bad news, or simply the bereaved widower of Big Dixie, his recently deceased ostrich? And what does the world’s largest ruby have to do with any of it?

Ned and Archer are two brothers in a quandary. Someone is leaving Red Delicious apples on Ned's desk at school (and no one's fessing up.) Archer's leaving soon for his life back in New York City, but with the recent death of Ned's husband and a nutrition-conscious stalker actively adding to Ned’s larder, Archer wonders if this is a sound idea. Mysteries deepen as we meet Makayla Onai, an Administrator at Ned's school, who admits she's been dead for ten years. Are the brothers missing some key piece of "apple-stalker" evidence? Or, are these events connected in some gay-friendly metaphysical dimension?

Time travel ain’t for sissies. Or maybe it is. Either way, Baz Wright and his fianceé, Joe Brolin, don’t have much time left. (In this century, or any other.) Joe’s been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer and Baz is desperate to save the love of his life. Will Baz remember the ancient Coptic rites in time to save Joe from certain death? And why does that Intervention specialist, Rana Magdy seem so familiar? Is she the manifestation of an ancient Egyptian goddess or an oxycontin-induced mirage? Are these the ramblings of an addict in the throes of his addiction? Or, is this an actual encounter with the secrets of the pharaohs, played out in a seedy Times Square hotel?

Awake and tied to a chair (and not in a fun way) porn mogul Ryan Dalton realizes that his time is running out. Ryan's ex-boyfriend Sean Corker and Ryan's younger brother Keith, demand that Ryan release Sean from his porn contract. As the clock winds down on Ryan, Sean and Keith’s murderous rage intensifies. Will events unfold in a gruesome finale, or will Ryan convince them to spare his life? Based on an actual case ripped from the headlines of some trashy online magazine, this gripping tale makes no attempt whatsoever to answer the question, what’s love got to do with it?

In 1982, Michael Hardwick and his partner were arrested in the privacy of their home during sexual intimacy. Through compelling eyewitness testimony, the author re-creates the dramatic events surrounding the infamous Supreme Court trial, which ultimately denied privacy rights to the LGBTQ+ community for two decades. While struggling to make peace with Michael Hardwick's heartbreaking journey, the author must admit his deepest fears, revealing his darkest secrets along the way.

Cyril Goforth is a Beckett scholar who’s gone off the rails. In this twisted homage to Waiting for Godot, he invites an unsuspecting mediator, Denise Johnson to engage with him in a play within a play. Is this a black comedy, absurdist nightmare, or something else entirely? Will Denise survive Cyril’s searing accounts of her past and pull Cyril back onto a path of full recovery? Or, will Cyril emerge triumphant, traveling deeper and deeper into their shared mind space.

Sarah's great-great grandmother, Alice James has a story of her own to tell and Sarah has the diary to prove it. When a young theater company wants to help develop the diary into a play (an homage to Henry James' "Turn of the Screw") things get weird. In fact, after a séance gone wrong and a visitation by a mysterious woman in black, events become downright sinister. Will Sarah and her theatrical cohorts survive this long, dark night of the soul, or at least this never-ending rehearsal? Or, will the spirits haunting Henry James' seminal work manifest themselves within the player's mind space, forcing them to enact a murderous tableaux?

Dalton's sister Serena is perfect. His brother Jock is, well, a jock with two boyfriends (that Jock plans to marry, simultaneously.) His mother has vanished. When a local high school theater buddy steps in to help with the search, it will take all of Dalton's reserves to handle the crisis without a total meltdown. As the manhunt widens its net to include the family's youngest member, the family fears its darkest secret may have been realized. Not your average family drama, this searing dark-comedy challenges the question of whether or not "Love Will Keep Us Together."

The glamour of Broadway isn't all its' cracked up to be, especially while slinging drinks to tourists on the Great White Way. Well, not on it, precisely, so much as in front of it. Front of House is a glamour-free and a vaguely demeaning way to make a living. No one knows this better than Pauly, the ex-boyfriend of Dean, an up and coming actor with a penchant for serial monogamy and rich boyfriends. Enter Will, a down on his luck playwright in a dead end job who just can't seem to find love anywhere other than the ten minute plays that run constantly through his head. Can Will find love in all the wrong places? Can Pauly survive being relationship roadkill? Or, will Dean's relentless tactics for stardom reveal a deeper path for redemption to those able to survive his pursuits?